Pulitzer Prize-winning US novelist Cormac McCarthy has won Britain's oldest literary honour, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
On Saturday the University of Edinburgh announced that McCarthy was the winner of this year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for 'The Road', his story of a father and son in a post-apocalyptic America.
Author and journalist Byron Rogers was the winner of the biography category for his book on Welsh poet RS Thomas.
Each author wins £10,000.
'The Road' is McCarthy's tenth novel and has also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The other fiction nominees were Sarah Waters, Ray Robinson, James Lasdun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Alice Munro.
The University of Edinburgh has awarded the prizes since 1919. Past winners include DH Lawrence, EM Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Iris Murdoch, Graham Greene, Beryl Bainbridge and Zadie Smith.
